]\!r. R. T. Pocock on neio Sjjecies of C/n'lopoda. IGl 



fuvnislicd above in its anterior half on tlie upper inner 

 edge with a large spiniform tooth, the middle of the 

 under surface armed with an enormous spiniform tooth, 

 which is larger than the s])iniform process of the pleura; 

 tarsus unarmed, claw not s])urred. 



Legs : twenty-second pair much longer and stronger than 

 the twenty-first, with tarso-metatarsus divided into a longer 

 proximal and a shorter distal segment, unarmed ; twenty- 

 tirst pair with tibia unarmed, tarso-metatarsus entire and 

 armed with a distal spine ; in the rest of the legs the tarso- 

 metatarsus is entire, armed witli a single spur, and the tibia 

 armed with a single spur, the first and second pair having in 

 addition an anterior tibial spur. 



Length 60 millim., of anal leg 18'5, width of first tergite 

 G millim., of twelfth 5, of twenty-third 2"7, of head 4"3 ; 

 length of head 5. 



A single specimen from Brazil. 



Distinguislied from Sc. Miersii and mexicans by the form 

 of anterior border of the maxillary coxge &c. 



Newportia Ernsti, sp. n. 



Colour testaceous or pale ochraceous ; head and maxilli- 

 pedes castaneous. 



Bodi/ slender and nearly parallel-sided, attenuated quite at 

 the ])Ostcrior end. 



Jlead a little longer than wide, its posterior border and 

 posterior angles convex, sparsely and shortly hairy and 

 marked with larger and smaller punctures, its posterior two 

 thirds furnished with two fine, subparallel, anteriorly abbre- 

 viated sulci ; a tine transverse sulcus in front of the posterior 

 border. 



Antennce composed of 17 segments, the basal two or three 

 hirsute, the rest pubescent. 



MaxilUpedes sparsely punctured and hairy ; coxte with 

 anterior border but little produced, bilobate, being somewhat 

 deeply but narrowly excavated in the middle line, and bearing 

 on each side a wide, very short, obliquely set plate-like tooth ; 

 femur armed with a small tubercle internally. 



Tergites. — The first marked anteriorly with a semicircular 

 sulcus and throughout its length with two longitudinal sulci, 

 which slightly converge in front of the transverse sulcus ; the 

 second, third, fourth, and twenty-second bisulcate, from the 

 fifth to the twenty-first quadrisulcate, as in Gryptops ; all 

 punctured, and, except the last, wath simple borders. 



Sternites wider in front than behind, except the first, twenty- 

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